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Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

1975 was marked by the fall of Saigon, Franco's death, and a European referendum. Papers released under the 30-year rule offer new insight into the political decisions of the year. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Martha Kearney
Interviewed Guest:
Jon Snow
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Howard
Interviewed Guest:
Giles Foden
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Haines
Interviewed Guest:
Jim McDowell

Woman's Hour

Friendship

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Baroness Shirley Williams and Helge Rubinstein on their 60 year friendship, Dawn O'Porter on the portrayal of female friends in popular culture, social pruning, and losing a friend. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Helge Rubinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Dawn O'Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Deidre Sanders
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Carnegie
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Plume

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Vivienne Westwood, Gemma Arterton

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Jane Garvey presents highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including Dame Vivienne Westwood on punk, politics and a career that has spanned five decades, Plus 'supergrans'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Vivienne Westwood
Interviewed Guest:
Geeta Nargund
Interviewed Guest:
Daisy Sands
Interviewed Guest:
Jeremy Horder
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Saunders
Interviewed Guest:
Gemma Arterton
Interviewed Guest:
Gwen Davies
Interviewed Guest:
Eileen Pullen
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Tirado
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Eve Pollard

Woman's Hour

World War One: Changing Women's Lives

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women, with guests including broadcaster Kate Adie and Baroness Shirley Williams. Jenni Murray presents the female perspective. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Adie
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Bourke
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie Andrews
Producer:
Anne Peacock

Woman's Hour

Friendship

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Baroness Shirley Williams and Helge Rubinstein on their 60-year friendship. Dawn O'Porter on how female friends are portrayed in popular culture. Social pruning. Losing a friend. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Helge Rubinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Dawn O'Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Plume
Interviewed Guest:
Deidre Sanders
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Carnegie
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Plume

Woman's Hour

Courtney Love; Michelle Collins; Political Game Changers

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Courtney Love on Kurt Cobain and the 'insanity' of fame, soap star Michelle Collins on the 'Rovers fear', and who are today's political Game Changers? Presented by Jane Garvey. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Courtney Love
Interviewed Guest:
Michelle Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Wollaston
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Burnell
Interviewed Guest:
Kimberle Crenshaw
Interviewed Guest:
Pauline Oliveros
Interviewed Guest:
Dawn O'Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams

Woman's Hour

Women in the 1920s

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Baroness Shirley Williams, social historian Juliet Gardiner, author Virginia Nicholson and Dr Kate Murphy discuss the changing lives of women in the 1920s. Jane Garvey presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Rebecca Myatt
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Juliet Gardiner
Interviewed Guest:
Virginia Nicholson
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Murphy

Woman's Hour

Women-Only Trains; Shabana Azmi; Supergrans; Rural Childhood

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Presented by Jenni Murray. Women-only train carriages, Shabana Azmi on campaigning for equal rights, how to be a Supergran, and the pains and pleasures of life in the country. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Producer:
Cecile Wright
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Bates
Interviewed Guest:
Ricky Twyford
Interviewed Guest:
Shabana Azmi
Interviewed Guest:
Eve Pollard
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Abbie Ross
Interviewed Guest:
Isabel Oakeshott

Free Thinking

Landmark: George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Baroness Shirley Williams, Professor Roy Foster, Nick Cohen, Duncan Brack, Bea Campbell and Philip Dodd discuss George Dangerfield's book The Strange Death of Liberal England. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Roy Foster
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Cohen
Interviewed Guest:
Duncan Brack
Interviewed Guest:
Bea Campbell

Last Word

A BBC political editor, a naturalist, a landscape architect, a Sultan and a union leader

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Bannister on former BBC political editor John Cole, desert expert Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson, landscape architect Georgina Livingston, and union leader Roy Grantham. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Neil George
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Neil Kinnock
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Cloudsley
Interviewed Guest:
Roger Tabor
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Eyre
Interviewed Guest:
Ted Cullinan
Interviewed Guest:
Marion Rutherford
Interviewed Guest:
Derek Rutherford
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Kate McGeown

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

1976 was marked by the resignation of Harold Wilson and the sterling crisis. Papers released under the 30-year rule give a new insight into the political decisions of that year. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Martha Kearney
Interviewed Guest:
Bernard Donoughue
Interviewed Guest:
Peter McKay
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams

Woman's Hour

Hillary Clinton

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Hillary Clinton talks to Jenni Murray about life at the political top table, chronicled in her new book, Hard Choices. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Hillary Clinton
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Helge Rubinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Gemma Cairney

A Good Read

Shirley Williams and Margaret Drabble

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for over a year

4 Extra Debut. Shirley Williams, Margaret Drabble and Harriett Gilbert on books by Winifred Holtby, Mary McCarthy and James Joyce. From 2015. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Drabble
Producer:
Sally Heaven

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

World War One and its impact on women. Couples in fiction. Sheryl Crow on cancer, adopting and country music. Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Adie
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Bourke
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie Andrews
Interviewed Guest:
Jojo Moyes
Interviewed Guest:
Samantha Ellis
Interviewed Guest:
Angel Haze
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Burton-Philips
Interviewed Guest:
Eileen Atkins
Interviewed Guest:
Maureen Baker
Interviewed Guest:
Delyth Morgan
Producer:
Rebecca Myatt

Woman's Hour

The life and legacy of Baroness Thatcher

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. Jenni Murray and guests discuss the life and legacy of Baroness Thatcher. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Mensch
Interviewed Guest:
Jacqui Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams